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 Hi, my names Emma and I’m a PhD student at Oxford Brookes University, UK. My PhD is focused on the conservation of Sumatra’s remaining elephant population and their tropical forests within the provinces of Aceh and north Sumatra. My research interests have been broadly centred around conservation, in particular the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity around the world. I have over 15 years’ experience working in the UK, Africa and Indonesia on behaviour, ecology and conservation and have worked with many forest species including the Angolan black and white colobus monkey in Kenyan coastal forests, and the Sumatran orangutan, the white handed gibbon and the siamang in Indonesia. Through my recent MRes in 2016 in Sumatra, I learnt about the plight of the Sumatran elephant, and the realisation that this species is in danger of becoming extinct in my lifetime. Therefore, I decided to self-fund my own PhD research and set up a project to help conserve this critically endangered species and its tropical forests.